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Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrow associate communities are depauperate in modified landscapes Open

George C. Brooks, Steven J. Goodman, William McGee Moore, Houston C. Chandler, Nicholas M. Caruso , et al. · 2025

The Gopher Tortoise ( Gopherus polyphemus ) is considered a keystone species because its burrows provide refuge for an entire suite of other species (hereafter burrow associates) that occupy the habitats in which it resides. The Gopher Tor…

Image synthesis of interictal SPECT from MRI and PET using machine learning Open

Azin Shokraei Fard, David C. Reutens, Stuart C. Ramsay, Steven J. Goodman, Soumen Ghosh , et al. · 2024

Background Cross-modality image estimation can be performed using generative adversarial networks (GANs). To date, SPECT image estimation from another medical imaging modality using this technique has not been considered. We evaluate the e…

The Impacts of Lightning Beyond the Troposphere Open

M. B. Cohen, Burcu Kosar, Alexa Halford, Rebecca Ringuette, Caitano L. da Silva , et al. · 2023

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Regional differences in the reduction in cerebral FDG uptake induced by the ketogenic diet Open

Olivia Bennett, Stuart C. Ramsay, Eva Malacova, Pierrick Bourgeat, Steven J. Goodman , et al. · 2022

Potential use of space-based lightning detection in electric power systems Open

Joan Montanyà, Jesús A. López, Oscar van der Velde, G. Solà, David Romero , et al. · 2022

Information about lightning activity and its parameters is necessary to design and evaluate the lightning protection of an electrical power system. This information can be obtained from ground-based lightning detection networks that provid…

Regional differences in the reduction of cerebral FDG uptake induced by the ketogenic diet Open

Olivia Bennett, Stuart C. Ramsay, Eva Malacova, Pierrick Bourgeat, Steven J. Goodman , et al. · 2022

Background The postulated benefits of the ketogenic diet in the management of multiple medical conditions has seen more patients who are in therapeutic ketosis attending for 18 F-FDG PET scans. This study aimed to investigate the effect of…

Convective‐scale numerical weather prediction and warnings over Lake Victoria: Part <span>II</span>—Can model output support severe weather warning decision‐making? Open

Marion Mittermaier, Stephanie Landman, Gabriella Csima, Steven J. Goodman · 2022

The greater Lake Victoria region was the focus of the ‘HIGHWeather impact lAke sYstem’ project, with the aim of developing an early warning capability for hazardous weather. Strong thunderstorm outflows can cause boats to capsize and lead …

A Simultaneous Observation of Lightning by ASIM, Colombia‐Lightning Mapping Array, GLM, and ISS‐LIS Open

Joan Montanyà, Jesús A. López, Carlos A. Morales, Oscar van der Velde, Ferran Fabró , et al. · 2021

The Atmosphere‐Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station (ISS) provides optical radiances and images of lightning flashes in several spectral bands. This work presents a lightning flash simultaneously observed fr…

The future of African nowcasting Open

LH Youds, Douglas J. Parker, EA Adefisan, Leonard K. Amekudzi, Jna Aryee , et al. · 2021

Nowcasting (weather forecasting predictions from zero to several hours) has enormous value and potential in Africa, where populations and economic activity are highly vulnerable to rapidly changing weather conditions. Timely issuing of war…

Three Years of the Lightning Imaging Sensor Onboard the International Space Station: Expanded Global Coverage and Enhanced Applications Open

Richard J. Blakeslee, Timothy J. Lang, William J. Koshak, Dennis E. Buechler, Patrick Gatlin , et al. · 2020

The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2017, detecting optical signatures of lightning with storm‐scale horizontal resolution during both day and night. ISS LIS data are availab…

Comparison of High‐Speed Optical Observations of a Lightning Flash From Space and the Ground Open

Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Torsten Neubert, Olivier Chanrion, Nikolai Østgaard , et al. · 2020

We analyze a nighttime negative cloud‐to‐ground lightning flash in Colombia observed from the ground with a high‐speed camera at 5,000 images per second and from space by the Atmosphere‐Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the Internationa…

Three years of the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard the International Space Station: Expanded Global Coverage and Enhanced Applications Open

Timothy J. Lang, Richard J. Blakeslee, William J. Koshak, Dennis E. Buechler, Patrick Gatlin , et al. · 2020

The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2017, detecting optical signatures of lightning with storm-scale horizontal resolution during both day and night. ISS LIS data are availab…

Three years of the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard the International Space Station: Expanded Global Coverage and Enhanced Applications Open

Timothy J. Lang, Richard J. Blakeslee, William J. Koshak, Dennis E. Buechler, Patrick Gatlin , et al. · 2020

The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2017, detecting optical signatures of lightning with storm-scale horizontal resolution during both day and night. ISS LIS data are availab…

A Workshop on the Next-Generation Environmental Satellite Constellations Open

Amanda Rehbein, Martín Rugna, María Paula Hobouchian, Anna del Moral, Steven J. Goodman , et al. · 2020

© 2020 American Meteorological Society. For information regarding reuse of this content and general copyright information, consult the AMS Copyright Policy (www.ametsoc.org/PUBSReuseLicenses).Corresponding author: Amanda Rehbein, amanda.re…

Three years of the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard the International Space Station: Expanded Global Coverage and Enhanced Applications Open

Timothy J. Lang, Richard Blakelsee, William J. Koshak, Dennis E. Buechler, Patrick Gatlin , et al. · 2020

The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2017, detecting optical signatures of lightning with storm-scale horizontal resolution during both day and night. ISS LIS data are availab…

Data files for: Comparison of high-speed optical observations of a lightning flash from space and the ground Open

Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Torsten Neubert, Olivier Chanrion, Nikolai Østgaard , et al. · 2020

This dataset accompanies the paper in the AGU open acces journal Earth and Space Science, special section "A New Era of Lightning Observations From Space" and contains data of the lightning flash in Colombia detected by: …

Data files for: Comparison of high-speed optical observations of a lightning flash from space and the ground Open

Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Torsten Neubert, Olivier Chanrion, Nikolai Østgaard , et al. · 2020

This dataset accompanies the paper in the AGU open acces journal Earth and Space Science, special section "A New Era of Lightning Observations From Space" and contains data of the lightning flash in Colombia detected by: …

Data files for: Comparison of high-speed optical observations of a lightning flash from space and the ground Open

Oscar van der Velde, Joan Montanyà, Torsten Neubert, Olivier Chanrion, Nikolai Østgaard , et al. · 2020

This dataset accompanies the paper in Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics and contains data of the lightning flash in Colombia detected by: * Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) * Lightning Imaging Sensor on the International …

Prolific Lightning and Thunderstorm Initiation over the Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa Open

Katrina S. Virts, Steven J. Goodman · 2020

The Lake Victoria basin of East Africa is home to over 30 million people, over 200 000 of whom are employed in fishing or transportation on the lake. Approximately 3000–5000 individuals are killed by thunderstorms yearly, primarily by outf…

An Evaluation of the GOES-16 Rapid Scan for Nowcasting in Southeastern Brazil: Analysis of a Severe Hailstorm Case Open

Bruno Z. Ribeiro, Luiz A. T. Machado, Joao H. Huamán, Thiago Biscaro, Edmílson Dias de Freitas , et al. · 2019

The GOES-16 mesoscale domain sector (MDS) scans with 1-min intervals are used in this study to analyze a severe thunderstorm case that occurred in southeastern Brazil. The main objective is to evaluate the GOES-16 MDS rapid scans against t…

Initial Geostationary Lightning Mapper Observations Open

Scott D. Rudlosky, Steven J. Goodman, Katrina S. Virts, Eric C. Bruning · 2018

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) continuously observes lightning throughout a near‐hemispheric field of view, capturing spatiotemporal variability on unprecedented scales. This study documents GLM lightning distributions during the…

Lightning: A New Essential Climate Variable Open

Valentin Aich, R. H. Holzworth, Steven J. Goodman, Yuriy Kuleshov, Colin Price , et al. · 2018

Lightning is a symptom and a cause of climate change. A recently established task team is working to make lightning data available and useful for climate science and service applications.

Contributions of Operational Satellites in Monitoring the Catastrophic Floodwaters Due to Hurricane Harvey Open

Mitchell D. Goldberg, Sanmei Li, Steven J. Goodman, Daniel T. Lindsey, Bill Sjoberg , et al. · 2018

Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category-4 storm in the United States on 25 August 2017 in Texas, causing catastrophic flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and resulting in a total economic loss estimated to be about $125 billion.…

Detection of meteoroid impacts by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on the <span>GOES</span>‐16 satellite Open

Peter Jenniskens, Jim Albers, Clemens E. Tillier, Samantha Edgington, Randolph Longenbaugh , et al. · 2018

Bolides are detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper onboard the GOES ‐16 weather satellite, which takes images of Earth at a rate of 500 Hz in a 1.1 nm wide pass band centered on 777.4 nm wavelength. Ten case studies are discussed. …

Characterizing the GOES-R (GOES-16) Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on-orbit performance Open

Scott D. Rudlosky, Steven J. Goodman, William J. Koshak, Richard J. Blakeslee, Dennis E. Buechler , et al. · 2017

Two overlapping efforts help to characterize the GLM performance, the Post Launch Test (PLT) phase to validate the predicted pre-launch instrument performance and the Post Launch Product Test (PLPT) phase to validate the lightning detectio…

Electrification life cycle of incipient thunderstorms Open

Enrique Vieira Mattos, Luiz A. T. Machado, Earle Williams, Steven J. Goodman, Richard J. Blakeslee , et al. · 2017

This work evaluates how clouds evolve to thunderstorms in terms of microphysical characteristics to produce the first intracloud (IC) and cloud‐to‐ground (CG) lightning flashes. Observations of 46 compact isolated thunderstorms during the …

S4: An O2R/R2O Infrastructure for Optimizing Satellite Data Utilization in NOAA Numerical Modeling Systems: A Step Toward Bridging the Gap between Research and Operations Open

Sid‐Ahmed Boukabara, Tong Zhu, Hendrik L. Tolman, Steve Lord, Steven J. Goodman , et al. · 2016

In 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began a cooperative initiative with the academic community to help address a vexing issue that has long been known as a disconnection between the operational and research …

Where Are the Lightning Hotspots on Earth? Open

Rachel I. Albrecht, Steven J. Goodman, Dennis E. Buechler, Richard J. Blakeslee, Hugh J. Christian · 2016

Previous total lightning climatology studies using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) observations were reported at coarse resolution (0.5°) and employed significant spatial and temporal smoothing to …

Insight into the Physical and Dynamical Processes that Control Rapid Increases in Total Flash Rate Open

Christopher J. Schultz, Lawrence D. Carey, Elise V. Schultz, Richard J. Blakeslee, Steven J. Goodman · 2015

Rapid increases in total lightning (also termed "lightning jumps") have been observed for many decades. Lightning jumps have been well correlated to severe and hazardous weather occurrence. The main focus of lightning jump work has been on…

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